How to check for an existing executable before running it in a post-build event in VS2008?

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Published on 2010-03-11T21:10:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 18:37 UTC
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tortoisesvn

Hey all,

I'm trying to use SubWCRev to get the current revision number of our SVN repository and put it in a file so I can show it in the UI.

As I'm working with a Web App, I use the following post build command line:

"SubWCRev.exe" "$(SolutionDir)." "$(ProjectDir)Content\js\revnumber.js.tpl" "$(ProjectDir)Content\js\revnumber.js"

It works great, but now I want to make sure I have SubWCRev before running it, so I can skip this post build if a fellow developer is not running TortoiseSVN.

I tried a few batch codes here, but couldn't figure this out.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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